A solitary horror movie marathon and a sugar rush is just as valid a celebration as a costume party with friends. So, given how awesome Halloween is, let’s look at some sites that can get you in the mood for it.
1. Halloween Countdown Live
This is as plain and simple as you can get—the site showcases a live countdown that ends when Halloween comes.
It’s a super fun Halloween-themed website that also offers a Halloween radio category, a Blog with costume and DIY ideas, and there’s even a category with other live countdowns. Apart from focusing on Halloween-related clocks, the platform also counts down the time until the next Friday the 13th.
Halloween Countdown Live is definitely worth checking out for a fun time and inspiration for Halloween.
2. Fright Find
What’s Halloween without a haunted house? And Fright Find helps you find one near you, whether it be a holiday haunted house or a real haunted place.
You can search haunts by state or enter your address and see the results that pop up near you. Then, when you select a haunt to visit, you get all manner of useful information about it. There’s its address, of course, a summary of what to expect when you go there, and even ticket pricing.
There’s often a true scary story to go along with the haunt and create the best atmosphere for it. And, true or fiction, it will likely scare you nonetheless.
If you’re not one for scary places but still want to get into the Halloween mood, the site also has a Patches & Mazes section. Browsing it, you can find pumpkin patches and corn mazes near you. So, you can discover a much chiller attraction that still embodies the holiday spirit.
3. Halloween Instructables
Halloween Instructables revolves around everything Halloween. The site offers up helpful information on a ton of DIYs on Halloween-themed projects on food, decorations, costumes, or anything else you can possibly imagine. If you’re planning a Halloween party and need help with decorations and the like, this is the place for you.
If you need inspiration or instruction, you’ll find it on the platform. Halloween Instructables also offers a Contests and a Projects category. They’re pretty self-explanatory.
Projects hosts all manner of instructions on how to achieve certain things, with images to go along with them. Some are strictly Halloween-related, others aren’t. And, Contests holds every contest you’re free to enter, and, of course, there’s a Halloween one, too.
4. Zombie Pumpkins
If you’d like your pumpkin to stand out this year, but can’t even begin to imagine how to carve your creative vision to life, or lack the creativity to come up with it altogether, fear not. Zombie Pumpkins is an indispensable resource for pumpkin carving.
It hosts over 500 unique stencils you can pick your masterpiece from and carve away. They range in fear factor, so while you can certainly find scary ones, you can also stick to kid-friendly stencils and keep it PG. There are also skill levels attached to the patterns, so experts can find ones to do alongside complete novices.
Along with the patterns, there are also instructions on how best to carve your pumpkin and images of what your end creation should look like so you can avoid confusion, the tools you’d need, everything. Most tutorials even come with videos.
5. All Hallows Read
All Hallows Read is a fun website that pushes the notion that, on Halloween, you should give out books to your friends alongside candy. Don’t stop at just sweets, but distribute scary books to people, too. Yes, they have to be scary, it’s a requirement.
Naturally, give kids appropriately scary books, and give adults appropriate ones, too—whether they’re second-hand finds, from the library or wherever else, it doesn’t matter as long as they’re scary. And, as Neil Gaiman said in the promotional video for All Hallows Read, ‘‘Spread the joy behind the terror.’’
The website has a Book Recommendations category, but it hasn’t been updated in a while. Despite that, All Hallows Read is a concept worth trying this Halloween. So why not start a new tradition?
6. Frightgeist
Figuring out a Halloween costume seems like the biggest challenge every year. Despite having all year to think about it, figure it out, and make it happen, it always seems like you’re scrambling last minute. So, why not avoid all that and instead try Frightgeist?
Frightgeist helps you settle on a Halloween costume. It teams up with Google Trends and offers up a tally of the most popular costume searches of the year.
When you enter the site, you can check out a full-on Costume Map section that focuses on the US and shows you the most popular costumes by state. There’s also a Top Costumes ranking starting from number one to fifty, and there’s even a button you can click to show more. You can also narrow that down to Nationally or Locally by the press of a button.
The Costume Wizard section helps you adjust your results by tinkering with the costume scariness and uniqueness levels and whether you’re leaning modern or classic. Once you do that and click Submit, it shows you what your costume should be. And, don’t worry, you can redo your search until you beat the system and get a result you like.
Then, once you have your vision, you can work to make it happen with as much or as little effort you wish. Maybe you can’t be bothered to buy a costume, but have a 3D printer at your disposal—that can work wonders for your Halloween attire.
Whatever You Do This Halloween, Just Enjoy It
As already stated, Halloween can be as solitary as you want it to be. If you’d rather spend it alone with a scary book, podcast, or movie, it’s just as spooky as when you spend it with other people, both in or out of costume.
Of course, one of the best ways you can spend the holiday is in themed costumes with friends doing a scary movie marathon. And the best part about that plan is that, technically, you don’t even have to be in the same room with your friends to do it. So many streaming services are holding streaming events for Halloween, pushing their spooky scary content, so you’re sure to find something to watch.
